Item is one volume of an unbound notebook containing notes on historic fire-arms, including the Enfield-Snider Rifle, muzzle-load muskets, canons, and early rifles. Pages are numbered with a corresponding index, many pages are blank.
Item is a collection of transcribed sea chanties, as sung aboard vessels out of Liverpool, Nova Scotia in the 1870's, 1880's, and 1890's, and recalled in whole or part by William H. Smith, of Liverpool, N.S. (born 1867). The words were taken down and prepared in typescript by his son T. Brenton Smith, in the year 1940. Includes the following chanties: "The Loss of the Emma-Jane," "Lay Out, Tack Sheets and Haul," "Bound to Rio," "Blow the Man Down," "Old Hoss," "Screwing in Song," "Way Down in Tennessee," "The City of Baltimore," "Around the World and Home Again," "Old Mother Head's," "Sauer Kraut," "Arriving back at Liverpool," "The Mary," "Brigantine Scrocco," "The Big Five Gallon Jar," "Shiloh Brown," "Shanadore [Shenandoah]," "What You Going to do with a Drunken Sailor," "Goodbye, Fare Ye Well," "Say Old Man," "Harbour Grace," "Liverpool Packet," "Fire in the Foretop," "Sailor's Burial at Sea," "On the Banks of the Sacremento," "Rolling Home to Merry England," "Then Turn out You Jolly Tars," "Whiskey for my Johnnie," "The Banks of Newfoundland," "Hangman Johnnie," "On the Plains of Mexico," "We'll Pay Paddy Doyle for his Boots," "Isle of Fugi," "Old England's Gained the Day," and "Walking in de Middle of de Road." Includes annotations about the chanties, some of which are handwritten and by Thomas H. Raddall.
Item consists of Thomas H. Raddall's typed research notes (with handwritten annotations) related to Irish emigration to Queens County, likely compiled in the early-1950s.
Item consists of a transcribed copy of a letter from Janet Mullins to Thomas H. Raddall on the history of the Irwin and Bartling families of Queens County, Nova Scotia.
Item consists of chronological research notes on the origin of the name Potanoc (variant spellings include "Potanuck," "Potanack," and "Potannock"), related to Queens County.
Item is one page of correspondence between the Department of Mines and Resources and Thomas Raddall regarding a cover on a publication on archaeological explorations.
Item is a two-page copy of a newspaper article title "From biplanes to jets, pioneer knew them all" dated January 8, 1970 from the Halifax Chronicle Herald and a short obituary for Donald W. Saunders from Dalhousie Alumni News dated March 1970.
Item is eight pages of correspondence. Includes a two-page letter from John MacQuarrie to Thomas H. Raddall, dated February 22, 1969, expressing interest in Raddall's radio announcement that he would be putting together a paper on the history of flying, and a five page letter, dated December 5, 1968, from W.L. Fillmore to John MacQuarrie .
Item is five pages of correspondence and includes a one-page letter dated April 1, 1969 W. L. Fillmore to Thomas H. Raddall, a one-page letter dated March 9, 1960 from James Barr to W. L. Fillmore, and a three-page letter dated March 11 (?), 1969 from W. L. Fillmore to James Barr.
Item is seven pages of correspondence. Includes a one-page letter dated March 4, 1969 from John MacQuarrie and a copy of a six-page letter dated March 3, 1969, from W.L. Fillmore to John MacQuarrie.
Item is one page of correspondence from Thomas H. Raddall to Mr. W. L. Fillmore thanking him for his previous letters and addressing that he required more information for his research on historical flying.
Item is seven pages of correspondence. Includes a four-page letter dated March 3, 1969 from W. L. Fillmore to Thomas H. Raddall, a six page letter dated March 3, 1969 from W. L. Fillmore to John MacQuarrie (contains annotations), and one card dated December 1968 from H.O. Maddens to W. L. Fillmore.
Item is one page of correspondence from Thomas H. Raddall to James M. Ottley regarding a local man named Maynard Colp who flew in Nova Scotia 1920 - 1930.
Item is two pages of correspondence from Thomas H. Raddall to J. Alex Inglis dated March 13, 1970 and included an enclosed photograph of Jim Ottley's Home Built Airplane (enclosure missing).
Item is two pages of correspondence from J. M. Ottley to Thomas H. Raddall dated May 14, 1969 contain a short description of Ottley's experience with a plane.
Item includes several pages of correspondence including a one-page letter from H. Earl Thompson to Thomas H. Raddall dated June 12, 1970 and a copy of a letter dated June 10, 1970 from R. W. Goodwin to Mr. Earl Thompson.
Item is two pages of typescript titled "Notes re. Telegraph system. Nova Scotia, circa 1795". This has been corrected to "1799". Pages contain handwritten notes on the back.
Item is eleven pages of documents used in the case of the Kind vs. Daniel Hurley, Liverpool N.S., 1816-1817. A note on the front page reads "Copied from the original documents in the possession of William Shepherd, former Prothonotary of Queens County. They were copied for the Canadian Archives at Ottawa by Charles Warman in 1918, according to pencil notes on each document. In 1960 Shepherd turned the originals over to Jones & Milford, lawyers, Liverpool."
Item is eight pages of documents used in the case of the Kind vs. Daniel Hurley, Liverpool N.S., 1816-1817. A note on the front page reads "Copied from the original documents in the possession of William Shepherd, former Prothonotary of Queens County. They were copied for the Canadian Archives at Ottawa by Charles Warman in 1918, according to pencil notes on each document. In 1960 Shepherd turned the documents over to Jones & Milford, lawyers, Liverpool."
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